Sansho the bailiff

Sansho the bailiff [videorecording] / produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screen play by by Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

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When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mori, Ōgai, 1862-1922 (Author)
Corporate Authors:	Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha, Criterion Collection (Firm), Janus Films
Other Authors:	Nagata, Masaichi, 1906-1985 (Producer), Yahiro, Fuji, 1904-1986 (Screenwriter), Yoda, Yoshikata, 1909-1991 (Screenwriter), Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956 (Director), Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977 (Actor), Hanayagi, Yoshiaki, 1924-1978 (Actor), Kagawa, Kyōko (Actor), Shindō, Eitarō, 1899-1977 (Actor), Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955 (Composer), Angles, Jeffrey, 1971- (Commentator), Le Fanu, Mark (Writer of accompanying material)
Other title:	Japanese transliterated title: Sanshô dayû
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Japanese English
Published:	New York, New York : Janus Films [Distributor], [2007]
Edition:	Special ed., fullscreen.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 386.
Subjects:	Governors > Drama. Governors' spouses > Japan > Drama. Exile (Punishment) > Japan > Drama. Slave traders > Japan > Drama. Japan > Drama. Melodrama. Action-adventure films. Romance films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Feature films.

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Summary:	When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers.
Item Description:	Presented by Daiei Motion Picture Company. Based on a story by Ogai Mori. DVD release of a 1954 motion picture. Accompanying book includes a new essay by scholar Mark Le Fanu ; the story on which the film was based, Mori Ogai's "Sansho dayu," from 1915, in an acclaimed translation by J. Thomas Rimer ; a written form of an oral variation of the same tale, dating back to the fifteenth century, in a rare English translation. Special features: audio commentary by Japanese literature professor Jeffrey Angles; new video interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokugo Tanaka, and legendary actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance.
Physical Description:	1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (77 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Format:	DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby Digital 1.0 mono. ; dual-layer ; restored high-definition digital transfer.
Production Credits:	Cinematographer, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editor, Mitsuzô Miyata ; music, Fumio Hayasaka, Tamekichi Mochizuki, Kanahiachi Odera ; production designers, Kisaku Ito, Shozaburo Nakajima.
ISBN:	1934121479 9781934121474